BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:24 PM

Almost 30 years a seaman,retired, then went to university and am now a local historian with a leaning towards the maritime. Also part owner of a maritime museum.Not bad , I suppose, as I left school at 14, over 40 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Paul Mitchell
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:29 PM

I'm a youth worker managing an information, advice and support project, primarily for "socially excluded" young people aged 14 - 25. So, as I use informal education methods in my work, I guess I'm about a close to a miox of teacher and social worker as you might get! The difference being that I'm not treated as bad as teachers, and I actually get stuff done, which is more than most of the social workers I know do.

Paul

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Llanfair
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:34 PM

Did training as an Occupational therapist, but didn't finish the course. Worked with Adults with Learning disabilities from '71 till '99 as residential social worker, day service officer, manager, co-ordinator, and finally, specialist social worker. Finished work at 51 burnt out.
Now I care for my elderly parents, create interesting things with driftwood,sing, develop the garden, keep poultry, and am, at present, working towards creating a Saturday country market in our town. I've made a CD, and we're working on another.
I can travel anywhere in the country by train for free, and I visit the Mudcat Cafe several times a day.
I have never been happier.
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Dorrie
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:44 PM

ooooooh i thought it was gonna say-'...when you all in love?' i'm a 6th form college student. love Dorrie p.s i study - Media Studies, Photography, Maths and Textiles but next year i'm doing- Photography, Textiles, English Language and ECDL

sorry that wasn't very interesting but i've always gor a lot to say on mudcat so i thought i'd tell u all

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: GUEST,Hilary
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:49 PM

I work with people with Learning Difficulties in residential community care- qualified as mental handicap nurse. (This is in between folk festivals & singaround sessions). A VERY long time ago I started a degree in applied physics.

One of the things I like about folk festivals + clubs is that you meet people of all sorts - BUT mostly over 35 & predominantly white.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Caitrin
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 05:17 PM

Whee...

Well, jobs I've worked before amount to Movie Theater Cashier, accounts payable/receivable clerk at an industrial contractor, and properties apprentice at the East Carolina Summer Theatre.

Currently, I'm a college student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and employed as the Assistant House Electrician at the theatre there. Well, actually, for -this- summer, I'm working for my parents, cooking and cleaning house. But at school, I'm working my way toward being a stage electrician and eventually (hopefully) a sound designer.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Philibuster
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 06:12 PM

If I don't end up as a succesful musician, I'll be going into forestry or being a pathetic bum. Poor and happy, that's the way it'll go.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 07:16 PM

after failing to become a Philosophy professor and a computer analyst, and being 'moderately' successful as a cabinet maker, I decided to serve out my declining years *grin* making 'stuff' out of wood...mostly round stuff like this and this and even this .....but not always round (making night-light type lamps with agate inserts there, using a router.)

lots of fun, and pretty dusty....I spend the rest of my time cleaning up the dust and seeing how much of my computer I can run on Freeware.....

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 07:44 PM

Jeez, Bill D. . . . Bee-you-tiful work!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Amergin
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 07:49 PM

wow bill....just wow...

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: leprechaun
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 08:07 PM

Before I became a jack-booted thug/oppressor of disenfranchised people/lackey of the corporate elite/foot soldier for the despoilers of mother earth I was a delivery truck driver/martial arts instructor.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 08:27 PM

I'm a Calligrapher, wood cutter. That is I make hand carved wooden signs. I also do a little stone cutting. I teach traditional Shotokan Karate in the Providence, Rhode Island public schools.(Those of you who know what I mean will know what I mean when I say my rank is "Go-Dan")I also sail as Boatswain-Chanteyman whenever I can and the money is right. I Rig "Square Rigged" sailing vessels, and occasionally hand hew masts, yards and other spars. Most of my income, however comes from singing gigs. I used to be an Air Traffic Controller (i5.5 years in the USAF) For you U.K. Cats, I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath for 3 years and RAF Bruntingthorpe (Near Leicester) for 1 year. Chief Controller at Bruntingthorpe, Approach Control Shift Supervisor at Lakenheath. 1957 to 1960. Enough, Cheez, I'm long winded.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 10:18 PM

thanks for replying evrybody,your jobs all look much more interesting than mine! im getting fed up being a delivery driver,so i might go to college in september and learn something new , maybe building or decorating.
metchosin -what is a nematology technichan?
bill - i like your wooden stuff, its realy nice i wish i could do things like that.maybe ill do a basic computer course ,im not sure yet.john

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 10:45 PM

gee, Don & Amergin, thanks for the kudos.....(I will be putting some things in the Mudcat auction as I get them sorted out, and 'soon'..(yeah, right)...a website to show off on....(now, if you are ever in the Wash DC area, come on by and handle the stuff!...I love to talk wood)

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Yankee Gal
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 10:58 PM

Former teacher for the deaf, now a homeschool mom of two(nearly three--adopting) and also Civil War reenactor who has fallen in with a great group of minstrel music lovers.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Yankee Gal
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:03 PM

hey, Cranky Yankee, My dad was at Lakenheath in '55-56 and married a Norfolk girl. I think he was an E-6 , but later took atc school in the Indiana Nat. Guard at Camp Shelby in 1981, crashed a t-34 before he got a chance to do atc.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Caitrin
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:07 PM

Wow, Bill...that stuff's gorgeous!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: YOR
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:16 PM

I got a BS in education then did three years at a private technical school. I left because of the money and for the last 20 years I have been a electrical mechanical designer and a database developer for a major aerospace company contracting for NASA. Yeah, thats the standard 'game show' reply, I work for a company that has a policy manual about as thick as the Bible and just as important.

I have been a hobbist woodworker for about 30 years, (cool stuff Bill!). Working at calling myself a musician.

Come on Lotto!!!!Roy

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Oversoul
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:18 PM

I am known as the "yodeling repo man" and I dig graves on the side. Well, PBS wants to do a thing about me, but I would rather stay underground, see?

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: YOR
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:28 PM

Bill, I'm in the MD burbs. Roy

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: GUEST,Lucius
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:29 PM

I am currently an elementary music teacher, though I 've had stints as a cowboy, truck driver, short order cook, carpenter, pimp/hustler for various arts organizations, bee wrangler and vintner--all while supporting my true vocation: Music.

Lucius

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 11:45 PM

These are so fun to read! Bill I am so glad you posted some more links of your beauties! Is the tall vase, the "even this" link made of myrtle wood? It looks liek the same kind of wood as a smaller vase my bought in Oregon, made of myrtle wood. Just beautiful. I LOVE the first link, the "pink pearl with lid jar" if I read the fine print right.

Okay, Mets, if we're going for unpaid, too...well, all the mommee things...you know, etc. etc.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 12:12 AM

I liked some of the college jobs the best. Ditch digger, delivery driver, projectionist. I've also paid the bills as a scenic carpenter, phlebotomist, teacher, paramedic, and for the longest time in my present occupation as a firefighter. I've been a singer of traditional stuff for as long as I remember, for the last 21 years with the same guys. I'm also a founding partner of Lane, Fielding, Patterson and Swan, Layabouts at Large, a service for those folks too busy to lie on their own backsides whilst drinking other's beer and soaking up the free heat. We're a multinational corporation with an aggresive plan for expansion into new markets.

D

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Metchosin
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:16 AM

Lovely work Bill!

john in hull, nematodes are microscopic unsegmented worms. I spent many years extracting them from soil and plant material and fiddling around with them under the microscope, like cutting their bums off and other neat stuff. Thankfully, I worked mostly with plant parasites or ones in association with insects and not with animal parasites, like the ones found in pork. You may never want to chew your fingernails again if you have seen some of the stuff that I have looked at.

A personal friend of Dracula are you Dave?

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:30 AM

Members of the same union.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: marty D
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:39 AM

I try to make people feel better about themselves. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

marty

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:03 AM

Wow! What an august assemblage. Pretty humbling list.

I've worked as a bottling plant laborer, assistant buyer in a large department store (toys and housewares), folk singer, factory supervisor, auto worker and secretary of a 4000 member UAW local, newsletter editor and photographer, computer programmer, consultant, bluegrass musician, city councilman, mayor and choir director. I'm currently an IT architect somewhere in the military industrial complex. Yes, I'm the guy Ike warned you about.

I also have a healthy list of hobbies including woodworking but nothing to match Bill's work. I don't even own a lathe.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: DaveJ
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:48 AM

Dave Swan,

Are you taking understudies forLayabouts at Large? I have considerable experience in sampling BASS, GUINNESS, and other strong ales. I also have known to sample single malt wiskeies on frequent occasions.
Will loaf for grog. DaveJ

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:08 AM

With all the occupations listed, it's no wonder that among the BS, there's also serious comment on almost any subject here on Mudcat!

Anyone want a lathe - going cheap? Excellent work Bill!

Alas, M'Lady P - that fine single malt Oban comes from the original "Oban" in Scotland not from here. Though you can buy it at the Pub (at a price)...;(

Speaking of which - must toddle the 141 paces from my desk to the bar, for a quick one....;)

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 09:43 AM

more thanks to all for the compliments...I sure never had any idea 10-12 years ago when I first got a lathe that I could do those...it just got out of hand. Now I wish I had started playing the guitar or fiddle 40 years ago....

kat...the red one is 'Pink Ivory'..supposedly a VERY rare wood from S. Africa, but there have been legal harvestings the last few years, and a lot of it is currently on the market.. It is a protected wood, however, and simplt won't ever be available in quantities. I sorta doubt I'll ever have any more at the prices they charge

The tall vase is Spalted Holly! (spalted means the wood is dead or dying and infected with micro-organisms which cause discolorations prior to total rotting...but if you catch it early enough, you get wonderful colors)

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 09:44 AM

metchosin-after reading yhat im glad im just a delivery driver.;-)

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 09:46 AM

Er, starting from the beginning; contract labourer, hod carrier, concrete finisher, flea-market trader, fire-eater, busker, journalist, own business.
The most fun was the early time in journalism when I was still in the regions and later freelancing, when I was spending as much time busking, trading and performing at fairs.
Being grown-up is so boring!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Midchuck
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 10:38 AM

I wanted to be a bum and folk singer but lacked the courage of my convictions, and went to law school instead.

33 years now practicing mostly real estate law, solo, in a small Vermont town. It is possible to be a lawyer and make relatively little money, but you have to work at it.

The house is paid for, our part of the childrens' education is paid for, and they're both honestly employed. If I take early social security, I can do it in 2+ years. My health is still ok, if this nasty chest cold will go away....Maybe I can still be a bum and folk singer (apologies for the redundancy).

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:18 PM

Advertising agency flunky-fired. Street Cartoonist-not tough enough. Portrait painter for rich ladies-too tiring. Bank employee-lost big cheque. Oil company mailroom boy-too easily distracted. Kelly Girl- I'm not joking! Children's Aid Worker- fired for not doing the paperwork.

I kept moving lower and lower down the food chain till I became a professional folk-singer...still do it.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:21 PM

forgive my ignorqance, Rick....but what is a kelly girl?

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Hyla
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 01:35 PM

Let's see....here is my career in a nutshell...factory worker, camp counselor, park naturalist (music skills came in handy for the campfire programs), program coordinator for an environmental education center (I got paid for organizing and leading whale watches, backpacking trips, nature walks etc.), manager for three conservaiton districts, and now a farmland preservation specialist(wow I have been at this last job now for almost 12 years...yikes).

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: wdyat12
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:14 PM

I am a crane mechanic at Bath Iron Works. I work in the air and have for 20 years. I have been a rock musician, a folk singer, a commercial artist/photographer, an art teacher, a museum guard, a Volks Wagen mechanic, a certified marine mechanic, and a pizza cook. I also write music, but not for money...never for money.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 03:03 PM

only on line could you find an assortment of people gathering with one common interest thank God for computers. me I work in a factory sanding and buffing corian part to go in R.V's not real exciting but hey it pays the bills :) mmm

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Micca
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:19 PM

storeman for TV rentals, Seaman, AB, wharehouseman, Lab Tech in school Lab tech University, degree in Chemistry, senior Lab tech, schools, Chief Lab tech, Superintendent Lab tech to Faculty of art and design in a University, Department safety Officer, redundant, semi retired, P/T lab tech local college,I like to sing and write songs...and use the internet,

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:23 PM

DaveJ, You sound like a promising prospect. A man with his sights set low. I'll mention you at the next meeting of the board.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:30 PM

Quality control inspector in the factory where they make the little umbrellas for Mai-Ti drinks.

Gives me a tremendous amount of job satisfaction at the end of the day. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Dorrie
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 04:39 PM

John in Hull will you go to college in hull like Wyke thats my college and that would be too weird a mudcatter in my college. Sorry if i dont make any sense Dorrie xxx

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:11 PM

Full-time, I am an administrative assistant with a non-profit agency. Part-time, I play music, I sell makeup, I knit socks, and I make jewelry.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:15 PM

Program computers for Boeing.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 01:38 PM

Started out as centre lathe turner, but found it boring (get it). Tried fishing, countryside management. Became a registered nurse got bored, just finished a history degree, oh and i'm a part time Lifeboatman. PS anyone got a job for me!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: mytoycar
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:40 PM

I AM A STUDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: R!
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:43 PM

Wow! Such a variety of interesting occupations. Formerly and part-time I've owned a custom cake business and been a dentist's assistant. For the past thirty (!) years I've earned a steady, if modest, income as an executive assistant. For no pay at all I'm a gardener at a local fraternal organization's headquarters. Once I bid the corporate world adieu I hope to become a healer.

Bill D, my Mister does lathe work also. The house is a virtual forest of his creations - all tall vase-like thingies. He's experimenting with vegetable dyes in the finish and has had some lovely results. Once used floor was on a holly piece; it came out looking like marble. Your work is gorgeous!

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: black walnut
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 02:53 PM

I used to be a Kelly Girl, too, Rick!

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:27 PM

Dorrie is that the one on Bricknell Avenue? What do you teach? If its the one on Bricknell Ave its near to me, I live on Spring Bank West.john

Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DO YOU DO ?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 04 Jun 01 - 03:29 PM

National Parks Ranger (USA).